Fire Support Base "Husky", home of Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 35th Artillery Regiment (155, SP) Xuan Loc,Vietnam. Aerial view from a UH-1 Huey helicopter, of the base and surrounding terrain. Mountains in the background. [Note: C Battery 7th Battalion, 9th Artillery (105 Howitzer) occupied the other half of the FSB. The base was attacked on the night of May 17/18, 1969, by NVA sappers, mortars, and rockets. Fourteen Americans and an estimated 80 to 90 NVA were killed.]
U.S. 25th Infantry Division Headquarters in Cu Chi, Vietnam. A FDC (Fire Direction Center) sandbagged bunker of Battery D, 3rd Battalion, 13th Artillery, 25th Infantry Division. An M-577 Command-Post armored vehicle.
Navigator work on documents aboard aircraft AC-47. Viet Nam Air Force officer and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares. (Vietnam War period).
Men at Long Binh ammunition dump. Officers and soldiers examine barbed wire fence where Vietcong broke through to enter Longbinh ammunition dump. Lookout tower in the background. Ripped apart barbed wire. Jeep parked along road. Sand bags near barbed wire fence. Shoe of soldier on ground. Barbed wire torn apart by Vietcong who infiltrated through Longbinh ammunition camp. (Vietnam War period).
Vietnamese Major General Minh addressing the crowd at turnover of Soc Trang base from U.S. Army to VNAF. Other VIP's listening including General Abrams and Genearal Clay. Secretary of Air Force, Robert C. Seamans speaking at the microphone. Reporters and cameramen seen. All VIP's in attention position during National anthem performed by VNAF Band. Dr. Seamans and other VIP's leaving. (Vietnam War period).
Bien Hoa Air Base in Saigon. OH-6A helicopters seen through barbed wire. Soldiers on tank. Army vehicles pass on bridge. Smoke rises in the background. Dead Vietcong on bridge. Vietnamese look through rubble. Smoking rubble in area. (Vietnam War period).
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